Verse

Lamentations 3:39

A church father on this verse

“A hermit said, 'In every trial do not blame other people but blame yourself, saying, "This has happened to me because of my sins." '”

Desert Fathers, 5th c. — The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

Original

³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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In context

³⁷Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

— Lamentations 3:39 —

⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.